单词 | dumb show |
释义 | dumb shown. 1. In the early drama, A part of a play represented by action without speech, chiefly in order to exhibit more of the story than could otherwise be included, but sometimes merely emblematical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > mime > [noun] > a mime dumb show1561 pantomime1630 dumb pageant1642 1561 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc (1847) 94 The Order of the domme shewe before the firste Acte, and the Signification therof. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. ii. 12 The ignorant, who for the Most parte are capable of nothing but dumbe shewes and noises. a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) vi. 77 Both stood silent a while, like a dumb shew in a Tragedy. 1674 S. Vincent Young Gallant's Acad. 20 You have heard..nothing but the Prologue, and seen no more than a Dumb Show: Our Vetus Comedia steps out now. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. vii. 275 The recourse to dumb show (which, however, Webster again permitted himself in The Duchess). 2. Significant gesture without speech. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > gesturing or gesture > [noun] > without speech dumb show1594 pantomimicry1728 pantomime1791 dumb crambo1811 dumb-play1920 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 131 Or shall we bite our tongues? and in dumbe showes Passe the remainder of our..daies? View more context for this quotation 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Emparle silence, a dumbe shew, or speaking by signes. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 123. ¶5 Expressing in dumb show those Sentiments of..Gratitude that were too big for Utterance. 1888 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. III. v. 109 A great master in the art of conveying a story by dumb-show. 3. attributive, as dumb-show-man. ΚΠ 1812 J. Nott in T. Dekker Guls Horne-bk. (new ed.) 56 A sort of dumb-show-man stands forth between the acts, holding up a board on which is inscribed the business of the act about to commence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1561 |
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